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by hydandata 11y ago
TL;DR; When you can read this book [6] and do all exercises in it without any issues you can safely stop and be sure you are very well versed in vast majority of subjects that you might encounter while hacking on whatever in most technical
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by hydandata 11y ago
I love programming, but never got the hang of Mathematics due to various reasons. Failed a big project as a solo programmer long time ago, when I was 17, because I could not create the necessary mathematical model and no help was available,
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by hydandata 11y ago
...Click a button, or invoke a command and an empty, unremarkable rectangle appears. Little you know that it is a relic from an age long past... Emacs to me, first and foremost, is a doorway to another dimension, a place you can escape to f
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by hydandata 11y ago
If you are interested in the future of Lisp in the context of browsers or Nodejs, take a look at this: http://lispblog.xach.com/post/138667931963/lisp-and-webassem...
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by hydandata 11y ago
I work remotely for past four years, and I totally agree with this. I still go to the office for occasional meetings and events but there is not that much pressure for it since most of my team is remote. I worked for a lot of companies for
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by hydandata 11y ago
This is amazing news! I was really worried about how the first run was going, because this format is just so great! It just makes sense. Kudos to all the teams for their performance, I am sure that had something to do with YC considering to
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by hydandata 11y ago
What a sad day, he was truly one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Inspiration to generations. P.S. Web of Stories has an extensive, autobiography style interview with Marvin Minsky [1]. [1] http://www.webofstories.com
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by hydandata 11y ago
I have 9 invites and none of my friends want them. If you want one let me know @hydandata.
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by hydandata 11y ago
Very inspiring interview. I do not think 50% of Earth dedicated to the preservation of life is too much, not at all.
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by hydandata 11y ago
Lisp is often advocated for the big ideas like macros, but I personally enjoy small things like this the most. Every day I write Lisp code I discover new ways of making my work easier and walk away with more appreciation for the effort that
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by hydandata 11y ago
For me, the key is that they are even considering remote. I think that really is the part that is needed to get to another 10x. I am not saying remote work is intrinsically 10x better in quality or quantity, I am thinking about it more fr
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by hydandata 11y ago
There is a great book about Lisp from Christian Queinnec titled "Lisp in Small Pieces" or LISP. Here is a little excerpt from it. "There are subjects treated here that can be appreciated only if you make an effort proportiona
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by hydandata 11y ago
I learned to touch type using this website. Now I am learning Colemak there as well. There is also a setting for Dvorak and ability to enable punctuation and other characters. I find it really good for practice. The not-quite-correctly-spel
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by hydandata 11y ago
> Perhaps 70% of developer time is spent dealing with parsing, serialization, and persistence. Values are encoded to and from JSON, to and from various binary formats, and to and from various persistent data stores… over and over again.